The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 2, 1914, Page 10

ene ries eRe mn ALASKA UNUSED | LAND OF RICHES, SAYS F. K. LANE Neglected Territory Has Poured Out Immense Wealth to Ungrateful a nienmancinisa am 4 Nation. Maj. J. F. A. Strong, | f AlasKa Governor Thanks Seattle for Timely Help comme f a LITTLE AID GIVEN governor of Alaska, ap J | pointed by President Homes for Sturdy People on || Woodrow Wilson on 50,000,000 Acres of | April 18, 1913, to serve t , Land. |four years, He took \ ere , — yas | the oath of office May . ¥ FRANKLIN K. LAN | | ul i iisareery of Interior || 21, 1913. He le beloved! ‘The targest body of unused and) | by all the people of his \ neogiected land in the United || States is Alaska. It is now nearly | territory. | half a century since we purchased || | thie territory and it contains to) - Gay less than 40,000 white inhabi- | tants, less than 1,000 for each year| sion. | je as a it has been in our poss The. purchase was m means of protection against the ble aggression of a foreign na mut the hope that it! self-supporting. In 46 years we have to our wealth $500,000,000 ‘ Huge Fertunes Made. For almost a generation it was| the rich harvest field of a single * company. Individual fortunes have been made in that country larger » than the price paid to Russia for the whole territory. How rich its) Waters are we know, because they / have been proved; but how rich its lands are in gold and copper. coal and oil, iron and zinc, no one Knows. The prospector has gone far enough, however, to tell us that no other section of our land today makes so rich a mineral * Rich Lands. | And in agriculture the govern-| ment itself has demonstrated that | ft will produce tn sbundance all that can be raised in the Scand. | _navian countries, the hardy cereals | Vegetables, the meats and the| off which nine million peo- | va live in Norway, Sweden and . It has been estimated | there are 50,000,000 acres of | Sr ee, ane, beste! The people of Alaska are duly appreciative of the excellent team es Semen, 2 is £0 work accomplished by the press and people of Seattle and the North- ska . td . . “Can be made seltsustaining agri| west in the recent successful campaign for the government construction This vast and unsurpamed asset |Of railroads in the territory. peat the tics ct the Unt | The hearty good-will shown and the work so happily consummated ee” Contains | lees, than. 2! will have the effect of further cementing the bonds that unite the people Vean be called a waxon road. itlof the far North with their neighbors of the other sections of the Pacific & few inconsiderable stretches t Tailroad which terminate, with | Northwest. BGs ot private, tesuetrs, _. The construction of a system of railroads in Alaska is but the enter- Daly the richest of its mines can|ing wedge, so to speak, to an era of great development and business greatest immediate value to the| expansion in Alaska, and in which the whole Pacific Coast will share. _ be worked, and one of its resources its i a ““ So | The bapa as ae: of the magnificent natural resources of Alaska on the one nite Hele. aone!a large scale and the investment of many millions of capital in mining this government on behalf off and other enterprises, which will follow asa result of the government’s y in nearly half a century the benefit of the Eskimo on | : . A WER’ rer ° border of the Arctic ocean, For; something that is of vital consequence in the upbuilding of a pioneer white man we have done noth- chagrin and humiliation. I thought that geandals that hi developed in Alaska have been in some part the of a feeling that it was a Signed: ———s——sSJ.. F.. A. STRONG. Man's Land, where the primal Bacon an tincts and powers were the Seaocanpreeemnrces omen — ti + ~ only law.—From the National PLENTY OF FARM LAND | RIVERS IN ABUNDANCE Geographic Magazine. | Alaska has an area of 586,||| The total length of the navt a paee * ~raneaad 400 square miles, of which | gable rivers is 6,000 miles. The | Yukon is 1.500 miles from the 30,000 square miles, or 5 per steamers for 500 miles above cent of total area, can be that point. It draina an area | ible for tillage. of 200,000 square miles. ! = erent | Co eee | mad | | Alden (meekly)—Well, | | cilla no longer says, “Speak yourself, John.” the Importation of reindeer|interest in Alaska, means rapid growth and a permanent population, | “t o little, in fact, that to men. | COUNCTY. i A | “tion what we have done i» matter The future of Alaska is assured. The flow of the golden stream) perhaps the| will be accelerated in the coming years, and the territory will furnish) homes for millions of contented and prosperous people. | | 100,000 square miles are sus ceptible of agricultural use mouth to the Canadian boun- | | | | tillage and grazing Probably dary and is navigable by large | | NETTLETON - BRUCE-ESCHBACH CO. | ENGINEERS AND | CONTRACTORS | Mrs. Mary E. Hart. | TACOMA, Wash. May 2.—Mrs. | Mary B. Hart, sister-dn-law of Lieut. Gov. Louls F. Hart of Washington, lis a woman who has “made good” ; F |as an Alaska miner. “1 am not a millionaire, but am Railroads, Concrete lcomfortably situated and have} ise to keep me nicely as long Construction, Bridges gi See and got out on the beach and shoveled sand into a “long tom” .. and Wharves . . Oh gag eae ne | Now she has numerous holdings in the Jupiter-Mars mine, the Cheauyemere, Lone Star and other | paying propositions. Mrs. Hart is not only a gold] |miner, but a Mterary woman. In} fact is known best for her Iiter-| }ary and club work, She started the| jold Pacific Monthly, the first liter- p on the co has officiate }ial and special writer fc |Publications, being @ life member of the Pacific Coast Women's Press | Association, and a member of the! 902-3-4 AMERICAN BANK BLDG. |National Editorial Association, | 5 ttl | For several years she has been! eattie |spending three months on the Pa-| ; cific as lecturer for the Pacific TELEPHONE—Elliott 4748 | Steamship Co, She Is president of the Alaska Cruise club, m travelers, and is going back Alaska to gather costumes and Mne| some natives to bring to the | 1915 exposition, i Section of Brick-Paved Roadway between Lake Forest Park and Bothell. ment adopted by the Commissioners of King County. This is the type of pave- are the most economical to build for the rea- son that when the pavement is once laid it is permanent, and you will not be called upon to foot additional expense for maintenance. You will have the most satisfactory service in all kinds of weather. Brick offers the least traction resistance to vehicles. The life of a BRICK PAVEMENT does not depend on a “squeegee or paint coat,” but is insured by four inches of solid wearing surface, “FIRST COST THE ONLY COST” DENNY-RENTON CLAY & 2 COAL CO, i822